OSG – the next few years Vicky White, Fermilab OSG Council Meeting March 15, 2013

Why is OSG important 1.Together, a group of people with goals and needs that overlap (even as little at 30%) can do things that are so much more significant than each can do individually – And we have proved that with OSG with the Consortium 2.Technology and ideas continue to advance rapidly and, as a consortium and teams, we can benefit from that so much more effectively than each institution or experiment or project alone 3.In these tough budget times we need to think about value (to science, to the taxpayer, to society) and it is good for us to formulate the value propositions of OSG and to evolve the economics behind it. 4.Institutions are important to carry long term goals and knowledge and values – People come and go and move in and out but institutional structures help to keep the world running and get things done (like science)

How I plan to help the campus program Portals that aid scientists to do their work without understanding all the complexities of the applications and the infrastructure are important to all sciences – one aspect of “campus” – In Physics it is important at the analysis stage, where there is currently less reliance on OSG I would support projects across OSG and Fermilab and XXX that advance the ease of use of the computing and storage infrastructures

What Fermilab plans to do Provide “matching” resources to work on the most pressing issues and research areas for the future – Monitoring? Security? Accounting? Id mgmt? Infra? Ensure experiments and projects use the OSG Support collaboration (by Fermilab folks) with a broad range of institutions in diverse projects Fermilab resources available for opportunistic use Fermilab will put in effort on OSG council (Ruth, some communications and outreach, institutional rep) Work on sub-committees that try to sort out future directions and goals and in particular changes of direction that may be needed to assure “value of OSG”

OSG Ambassador/Evangelist I will continue to work with ASCR program managers to try to articulate the value of OSG – I am on ASCAC – but collaboration and distributed computing are not a focus of ASCR I am willing to work with others on this – but need to figure out what is effective and what is not

What staff I am contributing and would like to contribute to the OSG activities Most of the people who are paid through OSG funds spend extra time on OSG or OSG aligned activities – Because Fermilab institutional directions are aligned with OSG Gratia was provided by Fermilab, CMS + OSG Ruth + some help + some outreach We spend a lot of time at Fermilab trying to combine various sources of funding into a coherent set of activities that are of broad benefit (including to OSG and CMS and others) I would like Fermilab to be part of some of the more forward looking projects (and not simply running services all the time) – we want to partner on more satellite proposals that benefit OSG